RECENT PROJECTS

The Medusa Project is a postopera for monodrama for soprano performer-composer (Misha Penton) and mixed media; it is an abstract re-imagining of the Greco-Roman Medusa myth, and a synthesis of live semi-improvised and improvised voice work utilizing classical, experimental, and extended voice techniques, fused with original poetics and integrated into an original digital audio voice and film-scape.

Threshold, a site specific new music work and a mythopoetic underworld journey created for the iconic old grain factory: The Silos on Sawyer / SITE Gallery. Misha Penton, soprano, concept, text, artistic director. George Heathco, guitars. Luke Hubley, percussion. Music by Penton, Heathco, and Hubley; with voice of Sherry Cheng, Neil Ellis Orts, and Michael Walsh.

Music created by Misha Penton, soprano & concept, and Thomas Helton, double bass. Misha created music through spontaneous and improvised compositional techniques, yielding quiet, spacious, beautiful and intense sounds, in keeping with the sacred environment of the Chapel.

A new experimental opera video. Misha Penton, soprano, concept, text, and Virginia Woolf text adaptation. Thomas Helton, double bass. Hsin-Jung Tsai, piano. Music created by Penton / Helton / HJ Tsai. The music for this work was created from three distinct solo performances, with the final edit created by Misha Penton.

Enchant(ed): an experimental poetry / vocal film, created on a stunning Colorado backroad in the deep winter. The work is a meditation on discovering the unexpected and uncanny, and explores one word, “enchant(ed)".